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I would support Hillary Clinton if she fought for racial equality and got the police to stop shooting unarmed black children.

Right now, despite the election talk, I don't see Mrs. Clinton getting any of those four done. I do see her getting us engaged in another war, and that won't help either. Basically, her perspective is last century, and Gen Y knows it.

I would support Hillary Clinton if she actually got something done in lessening the inequality in wealth in the United States.

Right now she seems to talk about the middle class and inequality, but there's no walk. And in the 1990s her husband oversaw a widening of inequality, culminating on the last day in office when he pardoned some rich guy and ignored healing the rift with the Native American community.

Hilary Clinton is only one century too late for the Presidency. She does not appear to inspire Gen Y, who will decide who is our next president, like they have for the last two elections.

But I would support Hillary Clinton IF she as President enforced Title IX and fought for gender equity in our schools and colleges for boys. I predict gender bias against boys will be even greater under a Clinton Presidency. But this is 1 of 4 things she could do that would lead me to support her.

Past peak last week up north. Still a magical view. Take or leave the pun.

A huge new turn in the advance of passenger trains in the United States. With the advent of for-profit passenger trains just this year, they actually do not need legislative approval at the federal or state level.

With Congress deadlocked over everything, and certainly unlikely to fund trains in the next few years, this is good news. Here's how a columnist for the Dallas News phrased it last week, "

"Texas Central doesn’t need the Legislature to approve the rail line; it just needs lawmakers in Austin to not halt it,..." Here's the article.

Certainly for-profit trains need to meet regulations, but since they own the track and the trains, they have to be stopped, not approved. That's a big difference.

Sunshine, blue water,colorful leaves and snow all at the same time. It's so beautiful.

As an American I am just guessing. But talking with a Canadian today he said many Canadians were pleased with the election results. So I don't think it is a stretch to say Trudeau's election is good for the 21st Century and moving forward with the Knowledge Society.

And yes, I am comparing him to his father, who governed during another huge decade of change in the 1960s.

First snowfall of the year in Wisconsin did not last long. Where we are in Wisconsin, we actually have to go south to get to Toronto, Canada. If we look up, we see the plane flying from Toronto to Vancouver.

Joe Biden's exit from the presidential race is bad for trains, and possibly the 21st century in general.

Biden as President would have supported more passenger trains. In fact, the day after he announced he was not running (that would be today) he said on radio, "I spend 80% of my life on trains." He was joking about the percentage, but not about how much he rides trains.

He surely would have moved America forward with transportation.

Last week I rated the Democratic candidates and their 21st Century (versus last century) views as:

Bernie Sanders, Yes - 21st century

Joe Biden, ? - Not sure, but he has potential

Hilary Clinton, No - she is last century.

So Biden might have been a 21st Century President in other ways as well.

While past peak up north last week, the woods were still a magical yellow.

Trains are not just for commuting to work. They are also for coming home from partying Saturday night.

Last week Amtrak announced it would run a train leaving Chicago for Milwaukee at 11:10 pm on weekends. A test for the coming holidays, but it could become permanent.

So I'm reading my 1915 book this summer and am feeling jealous when a character takes a train just before midnight to go home. I sure wish I could do that. Now if you live in Chicago or Milwaukee, you can.

Just to be clear: there's no DUI on trains.

The night train, it's just another move forward in trains replacing cars.

Photo: Co-author Julie takes photo of party goers at Chicago's Union Station on St. Pats day.

The demise of automobiles took another turn this year.Two books are now out now declaring and describing the decline of cars.

It comes exactly ten years after BBC Global Business Reporter Peter Day interviewed Coates and Draves in a half hour radio program that aired worldwide. We predicted in that program in 2005 that cars would decline.

But the author of at least one of the two books still doesn't get it, from my reading of a review in a Chicago Tribune last week. Thanks to NineShifter Michael Garamoni for the link to the story.

The author says that cars are in decline, whole or in part, because Gen Y grew up hearing their parents gripe about traffic congestion and driving. WRONG !

That had nothing to do with it. A whole generation dumps cars for trains because their parents grumbled?

No, Gen Y is dumping cars because 1)you cannot drive and work (you can on a train), 2) trains are safe; and 3) cars destroy the planet.

-Parents did NOT grumble about suburbs, they loved suburbs, but Gen Y is abandoning suburbs.-Parents did NOT grumble about stuff, they still love stuff, but Gen Y is abandoning stuff.

Parents had nothing to do with the demise of the auto. They still don't get it.